I think so. They were all responding to the call of their president. The president of their country. I would focus on the guy who instigated 1/6, built off the Big Lie. And maybe that will happen. But right now, we have an ex-president calling for retribution, for him and for his followers, after leading an effort to overturn election results and prevent a peaceful transfer of power.
And somehow this Banana Republic Hour is happening here, in our country. I would be less focused on people who believed the lie, and foolishly acted on it, and more on this evil clown….
Free article from the Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin, that points out how the media is not really illustrating how unhinged this guy truly is. By not doing so, they normalize further a guy who tried to steal the 2020 election, and seeks retribution….
“Apparently, neither the media nor supposedly sober Republicans have learned anything from the past. Trump gave a
bonkers speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, musing about
Russia blowing up NATO headquarters, claiming President Biden had taken the border wall and “
put it in a hiding area,” and telling the crowd, “
I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution”.
We do not get headlines acknowledging this is unhinged. Instead, we get from the
New York Times: “Trump Says He Would Stay in 2024 Race if Indicted.” And a similar angle from
CNN.
ABC started its website report this way:
“Former President Donald Trump continues to reign supreme over the conservative wing of the Republican Party.” From
The Washington Post: “Trump takes victory lap at conservative conference.”
CBS intoned that Trump “aired grievances with his familiar foes: President Biden, the Department of Justice, and the litany of legal fights he is embroiled in.”
Politico went with: “Trump ties a ribbon on the most MAGA CPAC yet.” Hmm.
From the coverage, you would never understand how incoherent he sounds, how far divorced his statements are from reality, and how entirely abnormal this all is.
This spectacle is equal parts infuriating and pathetic. Here are Republicans, some of whom are
considering runs for the presidency, who somehow expect to get through a campaign without mentioning the single most disqualifying thing about the leader in the race (other than his mental unfitness):
He betrayed the country. Such timidity is itself disqualifying for someone seeking the presidency. If these candidates cannot stand up to an ex-president who is currently devoid of power, how can we expect for them to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic?”
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“How entirely abnormal this all is”. Ya think so? With Bolsonaro in the CPAC audience no less, probably taking notes, lol.
Amazing! A banana republic version of the United States, trying to go mainstream. Tell me this is normal…
Yeah, that’s the guy I would focus on. The one doing a real good impression of a defeated leader of a banana republic, seeking to return to power, leading his followers in a drive for RETRIBUTION!! And those in power who helped him in that effort, more so than followers who were only doing what they felt their president was asking of them. Go after the liar who caused all this. The man trying so damn hard to destroy our country.
Otherwise, as Jennifer Rubin observes: “If you put cowering Republicans together with media unwilling to accurately describe what is going on in front of them, you wind up gaslighting voters, who come away with the impression that Trump’s carnival of crazy is acceptable. We know how this ends: If no one is willing to call out Trump for what he is, and the danger he poses to the United States, we risk returning him to the Oval Office.
Whereupon, expect the headlines: “How did this happen?”
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